Driver badly injured in Scripps Ranch freeway crash

San Diego  One person was hospitalized in serious condition early Friday after a rollover crash on Interstate 15 that blocked two right lanes and slowed the morning commute in the Scripps Ranch area for about two hours, authorities said.

Witnesses reported to the California Highway Patrol about 4:30 a.m. that an SUV had flipped onto its side on the right shoulder of northbound lanes, north of Carroll Canyon Road.

Paramedics took the driver to the hospital, a San Diego Fire-Rescue Department dispatcher said. The dispatcher said someone reportedly began CPR on the driver before paramedics reached the crash.

The two right lanes were blocked until about 6:20 a.m.

No further information on the driver or the cause of the crash was available, the CHP said.